
David Hulse
Board Member
David Hulse is Philip H. Knight Professor Emeritus in Landscape Architecture at the University of Oregon and was the founding Director of the Florida Institute for Built Environment Resilience at the University of Florida. His research centers on social-ecological systems and uses digital tools to facilitate land and water use planning and natural resource decision-making. With a focus on things people can do at local to landscape scales, Dave seeks to explain how social-ecological systems cope with intensifying disturbance regimes, and to help places anticipate and adapt to change. Recent efforts include alternative future scenario work with the National Science Foundation and a consortium of universities to enhance native fish and wildlife habitat under climate change and to anticipate how, where and when enhanced social influence networks can reduce risks of extreme wildfire.
Hulse is a graduate of Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design, a Fulbright Scholar; a recipient of the US Chapter of the International Association for Landscape Ecology’s Distinguished Landscape Practitioner Award, a corecipient of a group award of the 2012 International RiverPrize for work in Oregon’s Willamette River Basin, and in 2012 was named by DesignIntelligence as one of the 25 Most Admired Teachers nationally in environmental design. Dave lives in Oregon with his wife Lauren. They have two children, and in 2022, became deliriously happy grandparents.